Tim Tindle, 2007 Promod Rookie of the Year, has named two-time IHRA Pro Mod World Champion
Mike Janis and son Mike Janis Jr. Crew Chief and Co-Crew Chief of the
Tindle Racing Promod Team.

"I can't begin to explain how excited I am of this upcoming
season," 
Tindle said. "I am proud of what we were able to accomplish in our first year
of Promod racing and I have had the opportunity to learn a lot. We have
made a lot of changes as we prepare for the upcoming season and we are
really excited about it. This year may be one of the fastest and most
competitive lineups that NHRA Pro Mods have seen. We welcome Mike and
Mike Janis Jr. to our operation and we are looking forward to getting
this season started."

Isn’t it funny how the simple things that seem so insignificant in our young lives can make such a huge impact as we age?

Take for instance a simple word - catalyst, I used to dislike the word, but now I thank God for it.

This dislike can be traced to the fifth grade when the difference
between an average and above average grade on a vocabulary test was the
word catalyst.

I thought it was a part on a car and answered accordingly.

Hollie and Donnie Faulkner just called to let the Torco's
CompetitionPlus.com readers know that on August 26, 2008, the couple
are expecting a child. The Faulkners are the proprietors of the Rolling
O Store on the NHRA Midway. Last spring, the Faulkners lost their
unborn son Eric Blake Faulkner.

The battle started out with sixteen of the finest story-tellers, but
today the number of remaining combatants in the inaugural Torco’s
CompetitionPlus.com War Stories Showdown has been narrowed to four.

Gary Scelzi, Scotty Cannon, Bob Glidden and Roy Hill will participate
in the semi-finals of this outrageous event starting on Thursday.

Scelzi has been the top vote getter in the first two rounds with his
tales of thrashing rental cars and then in losing a battle with a waste
hose from his motorhome. Those stories resulted in convincing wins over
Pro Stock racer Larry Morgan and then IHRA President Aaron Polburn.

In the mid-1990s, Terry Walters, a former IHRA mountain motor Pro Stock
racer, found out just how difficult it was to navigate the
concrete/asphalt transition at Darlington Dragway in South Carolina. He
was uninjured in this accident once aired on ESPN2.

The 7th annual HangoverFest will go on in spite of nearly 6 inches
of snow that fell on Cordova Dragway, Cordova, Illinois on Friday, December 28.
"The weather is what makes this event so special" said Track Operator Scott
Gardner. "We will have pit area, return roads and race track cleared of the snow
and ready to go" he continued.

Racers in the Great Lakes area get their the first chance to win in 2008 as West
Salem, Ohio's Dragway 42 hosts the country's longest running New Year's Day drag
racing event with its 9th Annual Hangover Nationals.

This popular event
(which serves as the kickoff  to the track's 51st Anniversary Season) is open to
all street legal vehicles and is run "heads-up" on a 20.08 index.

Last
year's event turned out nearly 250 participants from a 4 state
area.

The following are the pre-entries received for the 8th annual Eastern Spring Test Nationals presented by Torco's CompetitionPlus.com hosted by South Georgia Motorsports Park in Valdosta, Ga. 

For the next three weeks, Torco’s CompetitionPlus.com will conduct
its inaugural War Stories Showdown presented by Mach Series
Accelerator. The veterans of yarn spinning are paired for what promises
to be a series destined to produce the finest behind-the-scenes
stories.

During the mid-1960s, Wham-O marketed this line of wheelie bars for
bicycles. This is a commercial promoting the product featuring drag
racing greats Dick Landy and Bill "Maverick" Golden.